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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 11, 2021 at 1:13 p.m.
Thread: Leafs steal a Hab
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Alfie11</b></div><div>you have a guy who should really be a 9/10F and a guy who should be your 10/11 F as your 7/8 and then 4 guys who are 12/13s at best, which doesn’t exactly solve the depth issue they faced this year. And your defense got worse too</div></div>
Yes eliminating their most overrated defenseman that only looks okay when propped up with their best defenseman makes them worse. Muzzin can just as easily prop up Dermott, Sandin, even Liljegren as much as he did Holl. Forward lines can easily change,
Danault&gt;Kerfoot, Goodrow&gt;Engvall, Noesen and Nylander are a wash with Galchenyuk and Simmonds. Play Goodrow with Matthews and Marner as they just need a good forechecker to retrieve pucks and score some greasy goals around the net. Tavares and Nylander line up with little Nylander, see if he gets more confidence playing with big brother, no less a gamble than Vesey or Galchenyuk were, shut down third line of Danault, Hyman, &amp; Mikheyev that could play against any top line in the league. Four player 4th line rotation of Spezza, Brooks, Thornton, &amp; Noesen. Better team than last year and they were pretty good last year
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 9, 2021 at 10:48 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 3, 2021 at 2:22 a.m.
Thread: Apparently the core is staying intact
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Nylander88</b></div><div>3-4 years isn't "semantics", champ.

But you keep using this as some example as to why this collection of overpaid, no-heart players need coddling and more chances.

jUst wAIt UntiLNExT yEAr!!!!</div></div>
You should just root for Buffalo then if you want to blow it up with new management, coaches, and players every 3 years. Reality is the first two years of this 5 year run of first round exits they overachieved, year 3 they pushed Boston to 7 without Kadri lost and Boston cruised to the finals before they were challenged by another team, last year they were bad and made coaching change mid season then covid flipped everything. This year they underachieved majorly by losing to Montreal but it still wasn’t a normal year or situation. It’s way too early to give up on this core group of forwards, unless someone comes with a can’t pass up offer.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 2, 2021 at 11:24 p.m.
Thread: Apparently the core is staying intact
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Nylander88</b></div><div>Then pick one of those years to say it took the core this long. You don't get to say it took a decade when the majority of the team was there five years. It's not a fair comparison to move the goalposts to fit your narrative.</div></div>

Better part of a decade then since you want to argue semantics. It’s not like the Leafs core hasn’t changed over the last five seasons. Current core only been together for three seasons and two have been shortened by covid, Current coaching staff has never had one single full training camp. No one is denying they underperformed expectations but only reason to move one of the big 4 would be to move Marner out because covid screwed up that cap continuing to rise and that’s not that great of a reason just yet
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 2, 2021 at 10:29 p.m.
Thread: Apparently the core is staying intact
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Dekes</b></div><div>Actually caps made it to game 7 and 2 of those years of the second round that’s 7 games farther then toronto has yet. Plus Toronto’s team is much better then what ovi had so that’s also another factor young ovi didnt have 4 all stars on his team like matthews does with, marner, nylander Tavares and Reilly and even muzzin is a solid defencemen probably plays top line for half the league</div></div>
Tavares has been with the club three years, two of them shortened with covid and wasn’t there for all but 10 minutes of this series. Muzzin has been there for less than 3 seasons.
Young Ovi played with Backstrom, Semin, Mike Green, and Fedorov. They weren’t exactly devoid of talented players
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 2, 2021 at 9:03 p.m.
Thread: Apparently the core is staying intact
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Dekes</b></div><div>Such a bad comparison washington did not have 5, 1st round/ play in series loses in a row. Tampa, Washington, Boston all those teams trusted their core and made deep playoff runs way faster then maple leafs. and even when they didnt go far their stars still perfomed. Marner has not scored in 18 consecutive playoff games, and matthews is not scoring at nearly the pace he should be, they need to switch their core up you will not find any success by making the little tweaks they do every year. The bottom 9 is different almost ever year yet they dont go any further in playoffs so maybe theres a problem in the top 6. Just because management does want to make changes doesnt mean the players wont wanna leave. Matthews and marner outta be tired of losing and with big stars like eichel, gaudreau, Seth jones, matthew tkachuk, etc being available for trade this would be the year for those guys to be traded because teams actually have assests to use towards aquiring one of those 2.</div></div>

How is it a bad comparison? It’s fairly apt one in my opinion. Washington may have got further than Toronto has so far but they failed to get past the second round for 10 years before they got to the final and on multiple occasions were the seeded higher and few times won presidents trophy as best in league. So unless you’re calling winning a single round a “deep run” Caps never went on a deep run before finally breaking through and winning.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 29, 2020 at 5:04 p.m.
Thread: Leafs Blues No Parayko or Pietrangelo
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Shesterkin_next_GOAT</b></div><div>engvall is not a natural Center and didn't not play there this year, switch with spezza then switch engvall on the left and finally barabanov on the 4R spot

right def isn't fixed, having a first pair with muzzin and holl is sad asf. bortuzzo won't solve anything here we need a shutdown captain to play with reilly</div></div>
Engvall played centre when he lined up with Spezza more often than not and I think Manny can help guys like Engvall, Kerfoot and in this case Barbashev improve in the faceoff department. Nobody really knows what Barabanov is going to be able to do in the NHL yet but idea with extra forwards is to rotate the 4th line depending on the team they’re playing. D core is far from perfect but banking on some internal growth from the younger guys and have space to change if need be. When healthy Muzzin and Holl were the go to shutdown pair so don’t see a reason to not pair them together again. I don’t really give a damn about handedness, didn’t seem to slow down Dallas or Vegas this year and Tampa’s left side is ridiculously better than their right side was.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 25, 2020 at 12:48 a.m.